How does one track the number of feed subscribers?

  • My web hosting provider gives me access to several of the popular stat packages. Using those, I can put an upper bound on the number of regular readers I have by seeing how often my newer posts get hit (sometimes an older one gets huge hit counts from a comment spammer).

    But surely there are some direct ways to count the number of subscribers I have to my blog feeds. What would those be?

    Thanks!

    CAM

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  • Check out my guide to blogging e-metrics that I co-wrote with a friend.

    It covers everything you need for what you want to do complete with links and detailed instructions.

    Thread Starter CurtMonash

    (@curtmonash)

    So the answer is to use the Feedburner plugin from the Codex links page?

    Thanks!

    Is there any downside to using free Feedburner stuff?

    CurtMonash: There is more to tracking the number of subscribers then just using Feed Burner.

    I have never experienced any downside to using Feed Burner. It handles tracking subscribers via rss, email, etc giving you all kinds of stats.

    I’m curious… did you even look at the guide that I linked to?

    After viewing your website there is a wealth of information in the guide that will help with your site for all kinds of tracking and metrics.

    Thread Starter CurtMonash

    (@curtmonash)

    I read your guide fairly extensively.

    My specific question was on directly tracking feed subscribers rather than people who come in via web search, links, etc.

    The stuff on directly tracking feed subscribers seemed pretty short.

    I didn’t see much on general web visitor tracking I didn’t already know, but I’m probably not the typical reader from that standpoint. (E.g., about 5 years ago I was briefly CTO of a company getting into the web visitor tracking business.)

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